Hero+Project

Essential Learnings:
 * Following Our Hero's Trail **
 * Students will read, write, and speak with an expository intent.
 * Students will utilize technology to access information about heroes.
 * Students will use critical thinking skills to choose and analyze information about their hero.
 * Students will compare and contrast fictional heroes with actual young heroes of today.



Guiding Questions:
 * What defines a hero?
 * What character qualities does it take to be a hero?
 * What is the difference between a hero and a celebrity?
 * Who represents a hero to you? What hero qualities do they possess?
 * What life experiences (actions, accomplishments, adversities) demonstrate that your person is truly a hero?
 * Essential Learning Student Progress Chart [[file:Essential Learning Student Progress Chart-Expository.doc]]**

Hero Week 1: What is a Hero?
Hero Week 2: Setting off on Your Hero Webquest

Hero Week 3: Let the Heroes Begin! Hero Week 4 : Transforming Your Research into Writing

Hero Week 5: Presenting Your Hero's Journey


 * Resources:**

Lauri Hamill. Powell Middle School. http://hamillwiki.wikispaces.com/HERO+PROJECT Used by permission.

Thomas A. Barron: Young Heroes. [|http://www.tabarron.com]. 12/30/09.

Thomas A. Barron. __The Hero's Trail__. Penguin Books, New York: 2002.

Thomas A. Barron.The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.2006. [|http://www.barronprize.org]. 12/30/09.

Beers, Kylene. A Reader's Guide to The Hero's Trail by T. A. Barron.